Helical tomotherapy versus conventional intensity-modulated radiation therapy for primary chemoradiation in cervical cancer patients: An intraindividual comparison

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 424-430

  Marnitz, Simone ^a   Lukarski, Dusko ^b   Köhler, Christhardt ^a   Wlodarczyk, Waldemar ^a   Ebert, Andreas ^c   Budach, Volker ^a   Schneider, Achim ^a   Stromberger, Carmen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology   (Macedonia)

^c VIVANTES HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Conformity; Helical tomotherapy; Homogeneity; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Small bowel irradiation

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL CANCERS; CONFORMITY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HOMOGENEITY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; SMALL BOWEL;

DISEASES; IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

CISPLATIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TUMOR BURDEN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052805910     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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